Family Portrait
Family vacation--Harding Beach, Chatham, MA, August 2024

My painting muses are my Goldendoodles. They often find their way into my paintings as subjects.

I purchased my first goldendoodle puppy, Sophie, from Kathryn Lee of makewayfordoodles.com. There is a funny story of synchronicities about Kathryn and my studio. She is the niece of Robert McCloskey, the beloved children’s book author of "Make Way for Ducklings." The beautiful connection was that my first studio in Saxonville was previously occupied by Nancy Schön, the artist who sculpted the famous Make Way for Duckling sculpture located in the Boston Public Garden. So Saxonville Studios brought the Ducklings and the Doodles all together.